Donald Trump has hired an experienced white-collar defense attorney to boost the legal team that will defend him from criminal charges in New York, his campaign said, on the eve of the former president’s surrender and first appearance in court.
The new addition, Todd Blanche, who had been a partner at firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, has experience representing defendants in Mr. Trump’s orbit, including former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Igor Fruman , a key figure in the first impeachment inquiry into the former president.